Tennessee has long had some odd rules for nudey bars. For example, a bar with naked dancers can’t sell alcohol. Bars get around this by either having the dancers wear see-through pasties on their nipples and thongs. Or they just let their patrons bring in beverages and they charge you price per bottle that you bring in (PSA: if in Tennessee, it’s expensive to take in beer). Now, it’s going to get a bit more odd:

The Tennessee Film Commission is hoping that a plan to tax strip club patrons will raise millions of dollars to lure Hollywood producers to the state to make their blockbuster hits.

So, the tax is to subsidize the making of movies? We want to actually tax regular Joes to pay money to a high dollar industry? No thanks:

”That is awfully dangerous territory,” said Ben Cunningham with Tennessee Tax Revolt, a public interest group. Cunningham is cool on the idea because the money would be raised from a $2 cover charge for every person walking into either an adult bookstore or strip club. In essence, he said, that’s a predatory tax that’s tapping one industry to help support another.

Posted in uncategorized on March 8th, 2005 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |